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Goose-step
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This article is about about the marching step. For other uses, see Goose-step (disambiguation).
Russian soldiers goose-stepping in Moscow.The goose-step is a special form of military step which is usually demonstrated in solemn military parades and passes in review of closed units. The marching troops swing their legs from a vertical leg to a nearly horizontally-extending one, bringing it down with a loud simultaneous stepping noise and continuing the cycle in unison. It emerged from Prussian drilling regulation during the early 19th Century, where it was known as Stechschritt (literally, '"piercing step") and Stechmarsch.
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1 History
2 Popular awareness
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
[edit] History
Guards at the Mausoleum of José Marti, Santiago de Cuba.The goose-step takes much practice and coordination, and so the purpose of the goose-step is the demonstration of absolute mechanized discipline and superiority. Some feel that the goose-step is also intended to look ridiculous, as George Orwell said in his 1940 essay The Lion and the Unicorn. The term "goose step" is used primarily by English-speakers. It was referenced in a 1936 editorial cartoon, "The Goose-Step".
Goose-stepping is commonly associated today with the German armed forces of the Reichswehr and of the Wehrmacht during the Third Reich. However, other armies have historically practiced goose-stepping or similar variations, such as the Imperial Russian Army. Benito Mussolini introduced it in 1938 as Passo Romano ("Roman step") in the Italian army.
The use of the goose-step was severely curtailed in the Wehrmacht after the fall of France in 1940 and recruits in training were not taught it. Even earlier, it was reserved only for special parades, and required several days of practice to ensure troops were fit and able to perform without injuring themselves. Preparatory training would include soldiers marching in small groups with arms locked in order to maintain their balance and become used to the physical exertions required. Later in the war, manpower shortages, restrictions in training time, and a paucity of appropriate occasions made the goose-step disappear from sight as the army concentrated on combat training.
After the end of the Second World War a reduced form of the goose-step (boot point in knee height) was still used by the East German National People's Army under the name drilling step to avoid references to old Prussian or Wehrmacht military tradition.
In the Soviet Union and the later Russian Federation, various military units practice a form of goose-stepping at such occasions as the anniversary of the October Revolution. They follow the model of the Imperial Russian army, which practiced a version of goose-stepping.
In countries such as North Korea, China, Cuba, and Vietnam, whose military forces are shaped by the Soviet model, a variation of the goose-step is still regularly demonstrated. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the soldiers presenting the Olympic flag performed a slow, deliberate goose step called the standard step (正步) during the ritual.
The Chilean military, which is modeled after the Prussian army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, regularly practices goose-steps.
The goose-step was introduced to the army of the Republic of China by German advisors in the 1930s, when the Nationalists controlled mainland China. Despite later American influences and the move to Taiwan, the goose-step was retained for ceremonial purposes.
The Iranian army's tradition of goose-stepping during military parades has continued despite the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
[edit] Popular awareness
Often in the West, the goose-step is invoked as a reference to Nazism, fascism or militarism in general. In other nations the goose step may not carry such meaning.
In the film and concert of Pink Floyd's The Wall, a famous scene includes animated goosestepping hammers.
In the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, the main character, Basil Fawlty, famously imitated the goose-step in front of some German guests.
In Walt Disney film The Lion King during the musical sequence "Be Prepared", a group of Scar's Hyena henchmen are shown goosesteping to the song.
Zim, in the show Invader Zim, walks with a goose-step as his normal walking mechanism.
[edit] See also
Lockstep marching
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